5 Months already!

Charlie is 5 months old today! It's hard to believe. He has been learning new skills like crazy and it's so much fun to watch. He now rolls from front to back pretty regularly. Mainly in his crib when he's sleeping. He sleeps on his tummy and rolls onto his back and ends up waking himself up, which is no fun at 2am when he should be sleeping. :( I'm hoping he starts going from back to front soon so we don't have to keep flipping him over so he'll go back to sleep. He is grabbing things, putting everything he can in his mouth (mainly his hands) and sitting up supported for a good amount of time. He's also starting to laugh, which is so cute!

We had noticed that he was spitting up quite a bit lately, so I took him to the pedi. He had not gained very much weight in the two weeks between his 4 month apt and that day. We decided to change his medicine and start him on cereal to try and see if the thicker food would stay in his stomach easier than just plain breastmilk, which is pretty thin. Well, needless to say, he hated the cereal about the first week we tried it. He would cry! But if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And we did! Today he finally seemed to be interested in it. Not to say he actually swallowed anything, but he didn't immediately spit it out and start crying. Baby steps...He's not getting any nutrition out of it anyway, it's just to help keep the milk down. It's been about a week since we changed medicine and started the cereal and it seems to be working. He's spitting up less and he gained about 1/2 pound in 6 days. So he is 5 months old and weighs 15 pounds. Hopefully he'll outgrow the 3 month clothes shortly! ;)

He has been going to Mother's Day Out on Tues/Thurs from 10-2. This has been really great. It gives me a chance to get out and do errands and things and he gets to be around other kids. It kind of throws his routine off a little because he doesn't take great naps there, but he is pooped when he comes home and usually takes a really long nap as soon as we get home. This gives me more time to get things done. I'm hoping this trend keeps up so I can use this time to sleep when I go back to work (whenever that is, not sure yet).

I will leave you with some pictures that I thought were pretty cute.



Charlie using his feet on his playmat:



Bathtime! He decided he wanted to naw on the side of the bathtub:



First try at cereal. He likes the empty spoon best:



Jeff and Charlie relaxing. Charlie had a stuffy nose. :(


I think he got a little tired in the excersaucer. Decided to rest his head: